Barry Mcgee
Senior Developer at Shopify
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBarry Mcgee is a Senior Developer based in Belfast with over a decade of experience building fast, accessible front-end experiences used by millions, currently shipping features for Shopify's Shop group. He combines hands-on implementation and team leadership—having led UI framework rewrites at Canonical, co-led a greenfield React/Redux dashboard, and run visual regression and web performance initiatives. A pragmatic advocate for design systems and front-end architecture, he has improved pattern libraries and CI pipelines at companies from Kahoot! to FutureLearn. An active open-source contributor, his work on Canonical’s Vanilla Framework and ubuntu.com demos reflects a focus on consistency, accessibility and demonstrable component examples. He also mentors and hires engineers, blending product-minded engineering with a long track record of scalable, high-performance web delivery.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Hons DIS, Interactive Multimedia Design, 2:1, BSc Hons DIS, Interactive Multimedia Design, 2:1 at Ulster University
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Github Skills (13)
html10
css10
sass10
css-frameworks10
user-interface10
website-development10
front-end-development10
javascript7
forms6
hyperlink6
jquery6
dns6
react6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
canonical/vanilla-framework
Jan 2016 - Apr 2021
From community websites to web applications, this CSS framework will help you achieve a consistent look and feel.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:27 releases, 1 review, 1015 commits in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Barry made several contributions to improve the demo page of the Vanilla Framework. They updated the footer year, replaced deprecated CSS tools with modern equivalents, and wrapped textarea elements in forms to display consistently. Furthermore, the user added new content to the demo page by integrating examples of components such as a grey row, buttons and grid-lists. These changes enhanced the framework's demonstration capabilities.
lookweb-applicationssasslook-and-feelcss
canonical/ubuntu.com
Apr 2016 - Jun 2021
The official website for the Ubuntu operating system
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 768 commits, 419 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Barry primarily updated the copy and layout of the Ubuntu desktop education pages within the `ubuntu.com` repository. These changes included modifying HTML templates to update list items and content on the education pages. The user also made whitespace and layout modifications to improve the presentation of content on the desktop overview pages.
operating-systemoperatingweb-and-designubuntu
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